Reviews
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
We need to talk about a few things. The performances in this movie are impeccably disturbing. The plot is excruciatingly enthralling. The outlook is bleak. The soundtrack is upbeat. You want to look away...
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Jurassic Park: The Game
Jurassic Park: The Game Demo Download Jurassic Park: The Game is an episodic, downloadable third-person adventure video game developed by Telltale Games that is based on the Jurassic Park franchise. The...
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Bwana Devil
A 1956 film starring Robert Stack and Nigel Bruce. Thoughtful consideration of the merits of Bwana Devil shall without doubt lead any sirius reviewer to the inescapable conclusion that it ranks with Plan 9...
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When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson
The prevailing view of the cause of the hyper-inflation which Germany experienced under the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1924 is that it resulted from the republicans’ attempt to lessen the burden of reparations...
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The Red Decade by Eugene Lyons
A remarkable work studiously ignored when it was published in mid-1941 and alternately attacked or maligned by America’s mainstream press and censored class-rooms since. Could perhaps be sub-titled “The Great American Children’s Crusade” except...
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Proletarian Order: Antonio Gramsci and the Occupation of the Factories, 1919-1920
My first comment is to note that the not-so-kind Professor—and it seems there is no aspect of human affairs so absurd or so preposterous that some professor somewhere has not built a highly lucrative...
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Panic in Year Zero
Starring Ray Milland and teenage heart-throb Frankie Avalon. A cult-classic that I absolutely love. Story begins with a family of four leaving Los Angelos at 4 in the morning for an extended vacation in...
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Crazy Heart
I saw Crazy Heart last year and absolutely loved it. Jeff Bridges is authentic in the role of Bad Blake, a self proclaimed washed up country music singer and songwriter. It was one of...
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The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox
Written by the doyen of Civil War historians, this is the final work in a series of ground-breaking narratives on the emergence of the Union Army from virtually nothing in the crucible of unexpected...
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The Course of Empire: A history of three centuries in which a new race engulfed a continent
A glittering tome replete with fire and fancy. Historian DeVoto details the inundation of North America by Europeans and the tearing of the veil of ignorance that lay over the continent of mystery coming...